The sight of San Benedicto island rising up from the horizon was beautiful. A gorgeous sunset, the green flash, a warm hot tub and the promise of good things to come the next day. How many times has the diving been so good at the Canyon that we stayed the whole day? I can’t […]
Read MoreEverything seemed to come together to make this trip a truly wonderful experience. The gorgeous weather, the great company of the guests and crew, and of course, the diving. I don’t know how to describe the diving in a way that will justify the experience! Whale sharks, mantas, dolphins, false-killer whales, octopus, Galapogos sharks, Hammerhead […]
Read MoreNautilus Explorer continues to assist Charles Darwin Foundation with fascinating study on shark migration. May11, 2011Puerto Ayora, Galapagos The Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF), a founding member of the Migramar network of scientists focused on the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP), and the Mexico-based research group, Pelagios, have identified a new shark migration record for this oceanic […]
Read MoreSo we started up with high expectations at Socorro and getting out on the lava flow in search of this big group of hammerhead sharks that we have seen here and the very very good encounters of the giant mantas that we have had this year. And we dove and we dove and dove and […]
Read MoreToday was just a beautiful morning dive. We were a quite big group all laying close to the. bottom sneaking up to the cleaning stations like a group of ninjas. The group were doing it perfect keeping down it gave fruit to a group of around a 50 hammerhead sharks came up over and over […]
Read MorePerfecto! First dive of the trip and we were greeted by 2 Giant Mantas..gracefully swimming above, around and with us for the dive. Water temp 74, viz great and the dive crew had us all well prepared and we had a great time. There was a Hammerhead sighting and one man saw what he said […]
Read MoreIts been a very interesting trip here on the Nautilus Explorer this past couple of weeks. Any trip that combines a combo of the Sea of Cortez and Socorro Island holds promise, and this one certainly delivered. The Sea of Cortez is everything I crave when I search for warmer climates that my homeland of […]
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